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Leonard Cohen Quotes

Leonard Cohen quotes

Canadian Musician, Writer, Poet September 21, 1934

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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over. Leonard Cohen
Undertow"I set out one night. When the tide was low. There were signs in the sky. But I did not know. I'd be caught in the grip. Of the undertow. Ditched on a beach. Where the sea hates to go. With a child in my arms. And a chill in my soul. And my heart the shape. Of a begging bowl Leonard Cohen
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen quote: "Success is survival."
Success is survival. Leonard Cohen
Well, I've been waiting, I was surewe'd meet between the trains we're waiting for. I think it's time to board another. Please understand, I never had a secret chartto get me to the heart of thisor any other matter Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen quote: "there's no forsaking what you loveno existential leapas..."
there's no forsaking what you loveno existential leapas witnessed here in time and blooda thousand kisses deep Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen quote: "I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of..."
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked. Ah, but some of you was light. Leonard Cohen
He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of the page is no guarantee. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. He hated to argue about the techniques of verse. The poem is a dirty, bloody, burning thing that has to be grabbed first with bare hands. Once the fire celebrated Light, the dirt Humility, the blood Sacrifice. Now the poets are professional fire-eaters, freelancing at any carnival. The fire goes down easily and honours... Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen quote: "It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you..."
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. Leonard Cohen
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. Leonard Cohen
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. Leonard Cohen
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.... Leonard Cohen
I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door. Leonard Cohen
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness. Leonard Cohen
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. Leonard Cohen

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